Afternoons at St Marks

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Afternoons at St Marks

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Sat Afternoon:

Friend from MS brought over his 12 year old son for a red try. The boy has a pretty good cast :thumbup: Met them on Sat. at 12:30. Ran to a good flat. I was using TW to find reds while I had them on spoons and TW too. We got into reds right away, landing 2 or 3 on TW.
Ryan landed his first red at 18 (+ an "Eerman"). He also caught a fine 20" trout on TW that his pops had missed the strike on and he swung in and snagged with a spook :thumbup: We landed 2 20" trout and 10 reds, with all but 3 in the slot and one 26-7/8 fatty that Chalk and BD were hoping to find Sat. morning.

Sun. Afternoon:

Headed out with the long pole and worked a very shallow flat. During the low I had 3 sight casts with 3 chases, one a pair of upper slot reds that fought over the fly for 10' or so....bout killed me when they didn't hook up...very exciting though. Changed fly after that.

Sight fished a second flat. Spotted 2 over a sand bar and made a decent cast. Watched the red turn and chase and the 24" red hooked up. Had a good fight for several minutes but he finally got off the fly. Seeing the take was awesome though :thumbup: Spotted a trout on the same bar and got a chase and caught a 16"er!

All in all a fun 4 hours of fishing with the long pole. Got many looks, several bites, and 2 hookups, and casts got where they needed to be....feel like I'm out of middle school now :lol: .

Can't wait till next time.
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:-D :thumbup: Good days on the flats!
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Post by birddog »

Sweet. Very nice, esp. the long polin' on Sunday.
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Post by snatch-n-reel »

Sounds like a good weekend to me. :thumbup:
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Good Day on the water

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Reel,
did you happen to notice the Water Temp on Saturday out on the flats. or does anyone that was out around the LH know what the water temp was. I was out there and only got a 19" trout and one Blue at 20" on live pin fish, but i want to check and see if my temp gauge was malfunctioning.

Thanks and great day with the young ones on the report.
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Sounds like you had alot of fun! :thumbup:
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Troutinator wrote:Reel,
did you happen to notice the Water Temp on Saturday out on the flats.
Don't have a temp gauge ... sorry Troutinator.
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Post by Ron Wilson »

Good trip RS. Looks like that 12 yo will go back with a good story of fishing on the flats. :thumbup:
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